Ophiorhipsalis

Ophiorhipsalis (K.Schum.) Doweld (2002)

🌵 Author(s)	Alexander Doweld
🌵 Basionym	Rhipsalis sect. Ophiorhipsalis (1894)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Karl Schumann
🌵 Type	Ophiorhipsalis lumbricoides

Etymology

Greek ophis ‘snake’ + Rhipsalis. For the snake-like branches and the affinity to Rhipsalis. Compare the name of the type species, Ophiorhipsalis lumbricoides (= Lepismium lumbricoides), from Latin lumbricus ‘earthworm, intestinal worm’ + Greek –oeidēs ‘resembling’.

Schumann later (Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. Nachtr. 1903; Keys Monogr. Cact. 1903) adopted the spelling Ophiorrhipsalis (cf. Acanthorhipsalis, Calamorhipsalis, Goniorhipsalis, Phyllorhipsalis).